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Subject: (Interview). Subtitle: John Fitzpatrick, Russ Charif. Timecode In: 00:03:46. Timecode out: 01:54:27. Notes: Ivory-billed Woodpecker search; Autonomous Recording Units; Bioacoustics Research Program. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Neumann KMR-81. IBW -CORNELL DAT #1 2005 John Fitzpatrick (Fitz) Russ Charif (RC) Mike Powers (MP) Scott Haber (SH) Chris Joyce (CJ) 1:22 ambi in room -some people talking about highlighting the events -do you have a notebook? Keep a sheet......which ones exported successfully (one man telling another what to do) ..... 2:42 ambi -birds and some knocks in bg. Also sounds of computer..... lots of clicking on computer but off mic. Chris talking in bg 3:54 Fitz and Chris setting up 4:02 Fitz -early in our days of ARUs you know, and we got those stuff back and I am saying you know pls anylze them as fast as you can. You know, guys are listening to them all day long. Week goes by and somebody runs down to my office and says Fitz you got to come listen to this. Jesus -they got it (in a whisper). And they say hey, put the headphones on, so I put the headphones on and I am listening and I hear a Carolina wren and then all of the sudden I hear: WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS! And for then next 60 secs or 2 mins these guys are saying this is something, I donna know that maybe the government has put out here. Could be a bomb -look its got some writing on it and they can barely read -it is the Cor -Cornell Lab or something. 5:08 CJ -this is LA? Fitz -yes LA -so it was the first example of the hunters finding the ARU More talk about ARUs and leaving them alone..... no batteries robbed.... one hit by a bear -describing how they know......talking with MIKE POWERS here. MP -I am the acoustic analysis coordinator. So I am in charge of all of the data that comes back Russ Charif -I am in charge of the entire acoustic survey and analysis project JF -I am John Fitzpatrick. I am director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology I am Scott Haber, I am one of the acoustic analysts here going through some of the tapes from Arkansas. I am Connie Bruce and I am director of the marketing and communications for the IBW project CJ _ asking Russ a little bit of the history of -about this room....... why did you pick this room.... what has gone on in this room 8:32 RC -well, about a year ago when we started reviewing the recordings from the first season of recordings in Arkansas we were doing it in the main bioacoustics lab which is a big, open, communal analysis area. And we had an episode where one of our analysts was going through the recordings and found what sounded to him like an IBW. And in fact it was an IBW -it was actually a playback experiment that our search team had done in the field, but our analysts did not know that they had done-any of these. So, there was a certain amount of excitement going on about this and it took a few mins before the pieces came together and people realized that this was not something to get very excited about. But in the meantime there were other people in the lab that didn't really know about this project and they were saying what is going on. At that point we realized we can't do this in this place if we really want to try and keep this all under raps. So there was a sudden frantic search in this bldg for a room where we could sit 3 or 4 people and their computers and we could have 4 walls and could close the doors. And like most modern office bldgs, most of the office space in this place is open cubs. And both from the perspective of trying not to disturb the neighbors with playing sounds and trying to keep the project still a little bit under raps. So we had to scramble and there was this small conference room which one of our dept directors very kindly agreed to give up for an undetermined amount of time. We got the conf table out of ... (Notes truncated)
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- 16 Jul 2010 - Ben Brotman
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- 16 Jul 2010 - Ben Brotman
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- 16 Jul 2010 - Ben Brotman